Students' Collection Benefits Foodshare

Chalkdust - Suburban schools

November 23, 1994

Students at the Stevens Elementary School in Rocky Hill collected more than $200 to buy turkeys for Foodshare. Organizers said the students started collecting money Wednesday and, by Friday, had enough to buy 25 turkeys.

The Rocky Hill High School band, The Royal Blues, recently completed its most successful fall marching season to date.

Band members participated in five major field competitions that began in Stratford in October, where they placed first. In competitions since then, they continued to place in top slots.

They completed their season Nov. 6 with a performance in New York, where they finished a close second behind Billerica High School.

The Rocky Hill High School Band Backers Association monthly can and bottle drive is scheduled for Dec. 3, from 10 a.m. to noon, at the high school parking lot.

In case of bad weather, all bottles or cans should be taken to the side of the high school, where sorting will be done indoors.

All refundable brands of aluminum soda cans and glass or plastic soda bottles will be accepted, and any brand of refundable glass beer bottles or aluminum beer cans.

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Students in Wethersfield's elementary schools have collected food for the town's human services department for Thanksgiving. Charles Wright Elementary school donated 15 complete turkey dinner baskets, Emerson Williams Elementary donated more than 320 cans of food and Corpus Christi School held a food drive on Saturday for the department, Human Services Director John Cosker said.

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Four members of the Newington HighSchoolGirls' Swimming and Diving Team competed at the state swimming finals Nov. 15.

Kristina Baldwin, a Bloomfield High School senior, was recognized as an outstanding student at the 19th annual Day of Pride reception Nov. 12 at the University of Connecticut.

Baldwin received a four-year scholarship to the university. She is ranked fourth in her class and is considering a career in medicine.

Other Bloomfield High School students who were honored were: Sasha Aldridge, Linnie Green, Yolanda Jenkins and Shani Ramseur. They were offered early acceptance to the university.

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Carmen Arace Middle School students will visit the University of Hartford Tuesday as part of the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce's ``business takes excellence to lunch'' program.

At the university, 70 honor roll students will be treated to lunch and visit the chemistry and engineering departments. Afterward, the students will tour the campus and sports center.

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Windsor High School student Jeffrey K. Levin, son of Marc and Rhea Levin of Tiffany Drive, has been named a commended student in the 1995 National Merit Scholarship Program.

About 35,000 students nationwide are being honored for exceptional promise. They placed among the top 5 percent of more than a million students who participated in the program.

Teresa Pugliese, a country western singer, will perform at Clover Street School,Windsor, Tuesday, at 6:30 p.m., in the school gymnasium. Donations are $5 a family. Proceeds will cover the cost of the program.